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Modern neural networks are expected to simultaneously satisfy a host of desirable properties: accurate fitting to training data, generalization to unseen inputs, parameter and computational efficiency, and robustness to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Melih Barsbey , Antônio H. Ribeiro , Umut Şimşekli , Tolga Birdal

Network robustness research aims at finding a measure to quantify network robustness. Once such a measure has been established, we will be able to compare networks, to improve existing networks and to design new networks that are able to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-11-21 W. Ellens , R. E. Kooij

Implicit neural networks are a general class of learning models that replace the layers in traditional feedforward models with implicit algebraic equations. Compared to traditional learning models, implicit networks offer competitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Saber Jafarpour , Matthew Abate , Alexander Davydov , Francesco Bullo , Samuel Coogan

Deep neural networks for computer vision are deployed in increasingly safety-critical and socially-impactful applications, motivating the need to close the gap in model performance under varied, naturally occurring imaging conditions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Nathan Drenkow , Numair Sani , Ilya Shpitser , Mathias Unberath

Certifiable robustness gives the guarantee that small perturbations around an input to a classifier will not change the prediction. There are two approaches to provide certifiable robustness to adversarial examples: a) explicitly training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Meiyu Zhong , Ravi Tandon

Recently, Zhang et al. (2021) developed a new neural network architecture based on $\ell_\infty$-distance functions, which naturally possesses certified $\ell_\infty$ robustness by its construction. Despite the novel design and theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Bohang Zhang , Du Jiang , Di He , Liwei Wang

We propose a novel Branch-and-Bound method for reachability analysis of neural networks in both open-loop and closed-loop settings. Our idea is to first compute accurate bounds on the Lipschitz constant of the neural network in certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Taha Entesari , Sina Sharifi , Mahyar Fazlyab

Robust control theory has been successfully applied to numerous real-world problems using a small set of devices called {\it controllers}. However, the real systems represented by networks contain unreliable components and modern robust…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-23 Jose C. Nacher , Tatsuya Akutsu

Attention is a powerful component of modern neural networks across a wide variety of domains. In this paper, we seek to quantify the regularity (i.e. the amount of smoothness) of the attention operation. To accomplish this goal, we propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-11 James Vuckovic , Aristide Baratin , Remi Tachet des Combes

Despite the exploding interest in graph neural networks there has been little effort to verify and improve their robustness. This is even more alarming given recent findings showing that they are extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Motivated by classical work on the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations we present a ResNet-styled neural network architecture that encodes non-expansive (1-Lipschitz) operators, as long as the spectral norms of the…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial noises, which motivates the benchmark of model robustness. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on evaluating defenses, but there are no comprehensive studies of how architecture design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Shiyu Tang , Ruihao Gong , Yan Wang , Aishan Liu , Jiakai Wang , Xinyun Chen , Fengwei Yu , Xianglong Liu , Dawn Song , Alan Yuille , Philip H. S. Torr , Dacheng Tao

Neural networks are often highly sensitive to input and weight perturbations. This sensitivity has been linked to pathologies such as vulnerability to adversarial examples, divergent training, and overfitting. To combat these problems, past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Laker Newhouse , R. Preston Hess , Franz Cesista , Andrii Zahorodnii , Jeremy Bernstein , Phillip Isola

Network robustness is critical for various industrial and social networks against malicious attacks, which has various meanings in different research contexts and here it refers to the ability of a network to sustain its functionality when…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yang Lou , Lin Wang , Guanrong Chen

Network robustness is critical for various societal and industrial networks again malicious attacks. In particular, connectivity robustness and controllability robustness reflect how well a networked system can maintain its connectedness…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Yang Lou , Ruizi Wu , Junli Li , Lin Wang , Xiang Li , Guanrong Chen

In various applications involving complex networks, network measures are employed to assess the relative importance of network nodes. However, the robustness of such measures in the presence of link inaccuracies has not been well…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-01-15 John Platig , Ed Ott , Michelle Girvan

Viewing recurrent neural networks (RNNs) as continuous-time dynamical systems, we propose a recurrent unit that describes the hidden state's evolution with two parts: a well-understood linear component plus a Lipschitz nonlinearity. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 N. Benjamin Erichson , Omri Azencot , Alejandro Queiruga , Liam Hodgkinson , Michael W. Mahoney

We examine the impact of learning Lipschitz continuous models in the context of model-based reinforcement learning. We provide a novel bound on multi-step prediction error of Lipschitz models where we quantify the error using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Kavosh Asadi , Dipendra Misra , Michael L. Littman

Neural networks (NNs) are now routinely implemented on systems that must operate in uncertain environments, but the tools for formally analyzing how this uncertainty propagates to NN outputs are not yet commonplace. Computing tight bounds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Michael Everett , Golnaz Habibi , Jonathan P. How

We use interval reachability analysis to obtain robustness guarantees for implicit neural networks (INNs). INNs are a class of implicit learning models that use implicit equations as layers and have been shown to exhibit several notable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Alexander Davydov , Saber Jafarpour , Matthew Abate , Francesco Bullo , Samuel Coogan